Week at a glance 12/4-12/8
Reminders for this week:
*Presentation of November book reports throughout the week
Religion: 8:30 Buddy Mass for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
December Book Report will be handed out tomorrow
Spelling and Reading Test on Friday
Spelling Words:
dispute, expose, mistake, compete, translate, include, explode, despite, subscribe, reptile
Bonus words: incubate, stipulate, confinement
Vocabulary Words to know this week:
Habitat, solitary, multiplied, eliminated, reintroduced-
Unit Vocabulary Words:
Prefer, investigate, associate, avoid
Language Arts: Unit 2 Week 4; Weekly Question- How does reintroduction of a species affect plants and animals in a habitat?
Learning objective:
- I can learn more about themes concerning interactions by analyzing the text structure of persuasive texts.
- I can develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing.
- I can use elements of an informational text to write a how-to-article
- Interact with sources in meaningful ways such as note taking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrations.
- The student knows and can describe patterns, cycles, systems, and relationships within the environments.
- Teach syllable patterns- demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by decoding multisyllabic words with closed syllables; open syllables; VCe syllables; vowel teams, including digraphs and diphthongs; r-controlled; and final stable syllables.
- Discuss how the author's use of language contributes to voice.
- Revisit compound words
- Write a response to a literary or informational text that demonstrates an understanding of a text.
- Use text evidence to support an appropriate response.
Monday- Cursive Practice Morning Work
Tuesday: Neat Handwriting MW
Wednesday: Correct sentences
Thursday: December Journal
Friday: Fun worksheet
Math: Begin Chapter 6- Multiplication and Division Patterns
Essential question: What is the importance of learning multiplication and division?
Vocabulary words: columns, rows, multiply, partition, skip count
Students will be able to:
- Model with mathematics
- Attend to precision
- Look for and make use of structure
- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
- Use appropriate tools strategically
- Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
Monday- Lesson 1- Patterns in the multiplication table- Students will identify and explain patterns in the multiplication table.
Tuesday- Lesson 2- Multiply by 2’s- Students will use arrays and drawings, such as bar diagrams, to multiply by 2.
Wednesday- Lesson 3- Divide by 2- Students will use models and related multiplication facts to divide by 2.
Thursday- Lesson 4- Multiply by 5- Students will use different strategies, including patterns, to multiply by 5.
- Daily work on Prodigy, IXL, splash math, iready math
Writing:
- Weekly writing in December writing journal
- Write a how-to article
Social Studies: Begin Lesson 3 about Geography (Friday)
Overview: Create a brochure about the geography of your community and play a matching game to find out how people in different communities adapt to geography.
Essential Question:
How does geography affect our community?
Objectives:
Social Studies:
- Identify and describe the physical features, climate, and natural resources of various geographic areas, including the local community.
- Compare and contrast different regions in terms of their geographical characteristics.
- Use map tools: scale, grid, key (legend), symbols, title, and compass rose.
Language Arts:
- Orally present solutions to environmental problems in response to ideas by others. (speaking, listening)
- Organize information in chart form. (writing)
- Identity examples of categories found in text. (reading)
- Write and illustrate descriptions of geographic locations. (writing)
Vocabulary: adapt, climate, conservation, natural resource, natural hazard, physical feature, physical geography, pollution, region-
Science: Chapter 2: Energy and its forms
- Read Chapter 2 Lesson 1: What are some forms of energy?
- How does energy change form? Lesson check in class
- Skateboarding energy virtual lab
- What is sound?
Standards/ Learning Objectives